Position: operational officer of the SSU department.
Sphere of corrupt activity: national security.
Region of corruption activity: all of Ukraine.
Qualification: the actions of the specified person are qualified as a crime under Part 4 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Status: 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Case story: On July 26, 2022, NABU and SAPO detained an operative of the SBU department, Serhiy Shcherbakovsky, “red-handed”. According to the investigation, he demanded and received $60,000 for allegedly assisting in the return of equipment seized as part of the investigation into the theft of electricity in eastern Ukraine, as well as not obstructing business operations. The equipment was seized and soon the entrepreneur-owner of the equipment was made an “offer”, which he reported to NABU.
Subsequently, the anti-corruption court arrested Shcherbakovsky with an alternative of almost UAH 1.98 million. In connection with the bail, the SBU operative was assigned the following obligations: to appear upon every request; not to leave the city of Kyiv without permission; to report any change of his place of residence and/or place of work; to refrain from communicating with a number of persons and to hand over his foreign passports for safekeeping.
In November 2024, the anti-corruption court found Shcherbakovsky guilty of receiving illegal benefits and sentenced him to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.
The defendant's defense lawyers filed an appeal against this verdict. In January 2025, it became known that the Appellate Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court would consider an appeal against the verdict sentencing Serhiy Shcherbakovsky, an operational officer of the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in the Field of Information Security of the Security Service of Ukraine, to 10 years in prison.
Open appeal proceedings on the appeals of the defendant's (Shcherbakovsky - ed.) defense lawyers against the verdict of the High Anti-Corruption Court dated November 27, 2024. Set a deadline for the participants in the court proceedings to submit written objections to the appeals - 5 days from the date of receipt of a copy of the ruling
Persons potentially involved in corruption schemes: being identified.
Assets: Shcherbakovsky's declaration is missing from the NACP register.
Persons who should have reacted: in the case of Shcherbakovsky, law enforcement officers reacted in a timely manner.
Scandals: There is no information in open sources about other scandals in which Shcherbakovsky would appear.
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